Citizens are expressing their anger at the high cost of living and the dizzying rise in basic necessities and vegetables.
After several months of patience, Moroccans express via social networks or in the street their dismay at this inflation situation.
Residents of Boulemane and Tetouan were the first to take to the streets to demonstrate. Other cities will follow in particular Agadir. The CDT and UMT unions will also demonstrate in the coming days.
The government says it is “monitoring the situation” and calls for “multiplying price controls”, without considering an intervention, as permitted by the law on prices and competition.
Officially, inflation was estimated at 0.7% last December by the HCP, but on the markets, increases reached 50% for certain basic products. In 2022, inflation was 6.6%, that of food products was 11%!
It is in Al-Hoceima where the cost of living is the most expensive at 8.4% followed by Kenitra and Beni-Mellal at 8.0%, in Errachidia with 7.6%, in Marrakech with 7.3%
